CSE Prize 2009 awarded to scientists for rbMIT software package

15 June 2009

Springer, a leading global scientific publisher, has awarded the Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) Prize 2009 to Phuong Huynh, Ngoc-Cuong Nguyen and Gianluigi Rozza for developing the software package rbMIT, used in solving parametrized partial differential equations by the reduced basis method. The rbMIT software package is an outstanding example of CSE software and is being used for both research and CSE education. The CSE Prize, established this year by Springer, is accompanied by US$ 10,000. It will be presented today at the Numerische Mathematik 50 Conference in Munich, Germany.

During their post-doctoral research periods at MIT, the team of Huynh, Nguyen and Rozza developed the software package rbMIT. They implemented all the relevant algorithms to solve parametrized partial differential equations by the reduced basis method. The reduced basis method has received considerable interest in the last few years due to its potential advantages over classical numerical methods for real-time or many-query contexts. This method and the related rbMIT software have been used to solve a wide variety of engineering problems including optimal control, shape optimization, inverse problems and stochastic partial differential equations.

Phuong Huynh is currently a research fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the National University of Singapore. Ngoc-Cuong Nguyen is a research scientist in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Gianluigi Rozza is a senior research scientist in the Chair of Modelling and Scientific Computing and Lecturer at the Doctoral School of Mathematics, both at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

Dr. Martin Peters, Executive Editor of Mathematics and Computational Science and Engineering at Springer, said, "Springer regards computational science and engineering as a very important field. It has already had a major impact establishing computational simulation as a third pillar of scientific methodology alongside experiment and theory. Springer integrated CSE into its publishing program in 1997 and is now recognized to be the leader in CSE publishing."

The CSE Prize recognizes the importance of the cross-disciplinary, teamwork-oriented nature of computational science and engineering. The prize will be awarded biannually to teams of scientists, the members of which represent at least two different fields. In addition, prizewinners will not yet have reached the age of 40 years. The prizewinning team is selected by the editors of the Springer book series Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering.